CARACAS, April 23, 2007.- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez asked the United Nations on Sunday to intervene in the case of international terrorist Luis Posada Carrilles, placed in freedom last week by the United States government. Speaking on his Alo Presidente TV and radio program, Chavez called the decision to release Posada embarrassing and proof of the double standard by the US government on the issue of terrorism. Chavez reiterated Venezuela’s demand that Posada be extradited to the South American country to stand trial for organizing a 1976 plane bombing that killed 73 persons. The outcry against the freeing of the terrorist was echoed in several countries around the world. Upon arriving for a visit to Havana, Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Russia's Communist Party, said the release of Posada exceeds the limits of cynicism and shame. La Opinion, the Los Angeles Spanish language newspaper, ran an editorial Sunday calling the release of Posada a defeat of the US legal system and adds that the move sends a contradictory message from the US government. In Haiti, Dr. Jean Renald Clerisme, minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, said the release of the terrorist was an insult to justice. "This man deserves to be brought to justice and there is no doubt that the world has already condemned him." In Moscow, the Russian Venceremos Movement, made up of different leftwing parties, and labor and civic organizations, delivered a message to the United States Embassy in which it repudiates the freeing of Posada Carriles on bail. (Cubaminrex-Granma)
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